Edmund Charles Blunden (1896–1974) by Ralph Hodgson, 1921 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bernard Bergonzi
Blunden, Edmund Charles (1896–1974), poet and university teacher, was born on 1 November 1896 at 54A Tottenham Court Road, London, the eldest of the nine children (five sons and four daughters) of Charles Edmund Blunden (1871–1951) and his wife, Georgina Margaret (1868–1967), daughter of ...
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Francis Cunningham (1820–1875) by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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Cunningham, Francis (1820–1875), army officer and literary editor, was the youngest son of Allan Cunningham (1784–1842), Scottish poet and songwriter, and his wife, Jean Walker (1791–1864). He inherited from his father a love of literature also seen in the life of his brother ...
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L. T. Smith
revised by Nilanjana Banerji
Nicholson, Brinsley (1824–1892), military surgeon and literary scholar, born at Fort George, Ardersier, Inverness-shire, on 18 June 1824, was the eldest son of Brinsley William Hewitson Nicholson (d. 1857), who was on the army medical staff, and his wife, Susanna. After passing his boyhood at ...
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Sams, Eric Sydney Charles (1926–2004), musicologist and literary scholar, was born at 3 Cedars Avenue, Walthamstow, Essex, on 3 May 1926, the only child of Henry Sydney Sams (1897–1968), a petty officer in the Royal Navy, and later a clerical officer in the ...
